Browsing by Subject "etnografisdiskursiivisuus"

Although the importance of equality work has been repeated in administrative and political programs, equality work has not been seen in the same legitimized profession as many other well-being in Finland. There has, however, been some degree of professionalization, meaning equality work in projects. My research focuses on Finland's this moment’s largest development, research and education project Tasova, and my point of view is in the collective equality and parity knowledge. In my research I see the conditions created by project-based equality work through which the knowledge required in equality work is determined. The theoretical framework can be divided into two parts. In the first part I considered knowledge in the light of previous literature, especially from a collective point of view. The question of the importance of collectivity is particularly necessary now when structures and institutions around the experts, especially in the public sector, have become brutal. The importance of collective expertise in equality work involves the fact that equality work is perceived as a precarious and challenging work among equality workers. In the second part, I described the conditions of equality work and made the concept of projection important for my research visible. Notable research data have been drawn from research interviews with six expert students from Tasova. Other data I’ve produced is by observing students during the training and exploring different Tasova materials and virtual platforms. All in all, the material was generated altogether in 131 pages. The analysis of my data was done by ethnographic discursive analysis. According to the results of this study, equality and parity knowledge is multi-dimensional and difficult to identify. It is knowledgeable and skillful management, tunnel, co-operation, discourse virtuosity and the ability to break away from the learned hierarchies. Its collective construction requires confidence, a secure space, time, place, involvement, commitment, structured and unstructured discussion, and the ability to break away from predetermined positions. According to the results of this study, Tasova appears as a discursively produced form of power, which builds a manuscript about what is the right way to make equality and what is the right way to know. In project-based equality training, the definitions of equality and parity knowledge have been manuscripted from above and they set the participants to be editable and evaluated in accordance with the needs and conditions of education.